Educating Desire Autobiographical Impressions of Addiction in Alcoholics Anonymous /

This impressionistic autobiographical inquiry is an attempt to connect the personal with the socio-historical—addiction with Addiction; it is also an attempt to demonstrate that knowledge production can be generated through radically non-traditional means. Narrative serves as method and methodology...

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Main Author: Waldman, Peter. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Bold Visions in Educational Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-145-8
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